Posted on 09/15/2010 8:24:36 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
For more than a year I've written off an on about the vicious fight between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and offshoot union the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). The NUHW left the SEIU in a huff several years ago when the SEIU implemented a hostile takeover of the California-based NUHW that it had been affiliated with.
This month that fight has fallen upon the workers of Kaiser Permanente in the Los Angeles Medical Center where a vote is soon to be taken by KP employees to decide which of the rival unions will represent them.
Starting this week the 43,000 KP workers will be making their choice known and the vying for votes by the two unions has been "hostile," as NUHW member Edvin Hakopian said.
NUHW members feel that this could be a make or break vote for their fledgling union. If they win this vote and are awarded the ability to represent KP's 43,000 workers it could make them a force to be reckoned with in California's healthcare industry...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
well lets cordon off part of Chicago dump them all in give them guns and let nature take its course.
Looks like the Mafia wars of the 60’s is back.
Either way, unionization will surely lower health care cost$. /s
My sister is SEIU all the way...it’s sicking to watch. But to hear her talk about how her union (SEIU) is the “Rightful” union is insane, much like her.
The War Of The Goons.
Man, we can’t pick our family, eh?
No we can’t pick family. After a discussion one of my 2 nieces de-friended me on her facebook page...Ah to be a young liberal with a mean ol Conservative for an uncle.
I found this piece written by a SEIU member elsewhere and it's worth noting:
"Plain and simple, Kaiser workers are not willing to risk the new National Agreement we fought to win this spring and ratified with a record-setting majority membership vote in June. Our contract guarantees a 9% wage increase over the next three years, fully paid family healthcare, and the best job protection in the industry--all of this negotiated in the middle of the economic crisis."
And here I thought that the rising costs of healthcare was a result of the greedy insurance companies.
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